Librarian: I just don’t understand why he still works here. I mean, wouldn’t you feel bad about yourself if nobody gives a crap how your New Year was?
Garden City, New York
Overheard by: Soapnana
Librarian: I just don’t understand why he still works here. I mean, wouldn’t you feel bad about yourself if nobody gives a crap how your New Year was?
Garden City, New York
Overheard by: Soapnana
Grad student to undergrad: So I think we’ll probably end up selling our plane tickets, since we kind of need the money.
Professor nearby: Damn it!
Grad student: Um, should I, not sell the tickets, then?
Professor: Oh, oh no, sorry. It’s just that I don’t think I should wear my bathing suit to work anymore.
North Charles Street
Baltimore, Maryland
Overheard by: LabCat
Associate, to coworker across the office: The question is, if you wouldn’t want to mention it, why would you want to touch it?
New York, New York
Math teacher: So that was interpreting the graph. Gosh guys, this is really boring.
Wallingford, Connecticut
Overheard by: margo
Waiter: Did you get laid on vacation?
Busgirl: It was church camp.
Waiter: So “yes” then?
Busgirl (quietly): Yes.
Circle Centre Mall
Indianapolis, Indiana
Overheard by: Shatmandu
Coworker and mother of a two and a five-year-old : Oh wait! I gotta go. I have to pick my kids up from the jail!
N Willamette Street
Coburg, Oregon
Overheard by: Glad her husband is a sheriff
Animated black suit: You gotta have benchmarks. What are you gonna measure?
Sweaty white suit: I don’t need to measure.
Animated black suit: You gotta have benchmarks.
Sweaty white suit: My dick is the benchmark. Okay?
Animated black suit: That’s fine. You just gotta have some benchmarks. That’s all I’m saying.
New York City, New York
Overheard by: jjblu
Mother shouting on cell: How the fuck do I know what he eats? I’m his mother, not his nanny.
New York City Library, New York
Overheard by: Took care of my own children
Receptionist on phone: Did you finish it? What did it say? What do elephants have to do with anything?
Texas A&M University
College Station, Texas
Overheard by: Faith
Boss: For an hour I’m going to do nothing but urinate. And then? Five minutes of blogging.
Los Angeles, California
